Neighborz

Just a look at the neighborz in the rental neighborhood.

We have a love seat under the front window when I like to stretch out with my computer on my lap and I can look out the big front window and watch the world go by.

Across the street is Visor Woman. She wear a visor each and every day even when it's cloudy. She one of those skinny old lady types with a cane who mows her lawn every other day. She was even mowing IN THE RAIN with her visor and her ELECTRIC lawn mower. She has a dog, a reddish colored doberman who must be incredibly old or terribly depressed. I have never seen a dog so listless. Anyhow Visor woman... perhaps she should be Vizor woman, doesn't like her next door neighbor Broom Guy. She's always flicking bits of who knows what onto his grass. I'll get to broom guy later. Vizor woman dusts her car each and every day and one day when it was raining she was watering her tree..... her tree's leaves. Yep there she stood, in the rain, hose nozzle raised and, what I can only suspectm was cleaning the leaves of her tree.

Then there is broom guy. I sat there and watched him walk up his walk, unlock his door, set his groceries inside and then spent who know how long, picking who knows what off the bottom of his flip flops. Now the door is open, he's standing in the middle of the door frame flicking stuff off the bottom of his flip flop onto his porch. Once that was done and anything in his bag that was frozen defrosted, he set his clean soled flip flops beside the door, returned outside in a pair of shoes and then swept the bits of whatever off his porch, then off his step, the down the side walk to the gutter where he then swept all the leaves and grass clippings down the gutter and around the corner where he picked up the leavings and dropped it all on HIS next door neighbor's lawn... Invisible Guy! Then Broom man goes back to his porch, where he takes off his shoes puts his flip flops back on and then picks the blades of whatever off the soles of his shoes. Holy mother of god. Yes I sat and watched simply because I could NOT believe it. And just this past Sunday, he apparently couldn't get the whatever off the bottom of his flip flops and became exasperated and threw the both of them into a bush which meant he had to go back into the house to get his shoes.

Invizible guy is just that. His shades never go up or down, I rarely see a light on tho I did see him leave the house once and he cut his lawn once. Other than that INVIZIBLE GUY!!

The next door neighbors of ours are clean freakz. My god, all they seem to do is clean. The old folkz next door on our left wash down their deck and gave us some kind of bleach thing to use on our cement because one of the dogz poop there and who knows what germs with erupt. The younger woman on the other side had a day when everyone was out of her house and she spent it CLEANING!!! There's not so much as a blade of grass out of line. We cut our rental grass but I don't bother weeding the flower beds hoping that Kali and Charlie will run through them enough to wear the weeds down to nothing. Then the household next to younger neighbors has one of those solid prefab white fences that she washed down with soapy water and then rinsed with a hose.

Now, I am not the greatest housekeeper in the world. In fact I wouldn't even consider myself good so you can imagine that these neighborz give me the creeping ghoulies. I want to shout at them to get a life. To do something for themselves that deosn't require bleach or scrubbing or ammonia. Read a book, have a beer, do anything. I think if they ever saw my true lawn at home with the waist high grass, they would faint dead away. Well, maybe not. That would just clutter up the place.

We visited home yesterday to see how far they have gotten on our rebuild. Plumbing is in and has been inspected by the county. We now have a tub only the water hasn't been turned back on. We have a bathroom sink but it's in the dumpster with a big chunk broken out of it.

The electrical boxes are up and most are wired. the doodads for the ceiling fans are in the ceiling and ready for the fans. The rooms are roughed out. The closet in my craft room is going to be much smaller than what it was but it gives me more room. The basement seems larger than upstairs and Josh will have two big rooms, a full bathroom and an ell where he can put a bar if he wants. In face the plumber has run a pipe to that area so that if Josh wants to install a wet bar the pipes are there. Upstairs there is the piping for our automatic ice maker refrigerator. Also the opening for the new sliding doors is cut and ready for them to build our deck.

so that's it from my neck of the woodz.